RFE/RL’s Bulgarian Service relaunched in 2019 after a 15-year absence, providing independent news and original analysis to help strengthen a media landscape weakened by the monopolization of ownership and corruption.
The British ambassador to Sofia has discussed with top Bulgarian officials possible links between the 2015 poisoning of a local businessman in Bulgaria and last year’s nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain.
Bulgaria has revoked the Bulgarian citizenship of a Russian millionaire amid EU criticism of a scheme known as the "golden passport."
Bulgarian-born Kosta Karakashyan was so moved by "horrifying" stories of torture against the LGBT community in Chechnya, that he is using dance to express their suffering in a new film.
